We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"The people we deal with is a local partner in Cambodia and we can get good support from them."
"I have found that Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is easy to use, highly secure, and the main VPN tunnel is created automatically which is a benefit."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"They offer templates that provide detailed reports categorized by user, device, and internal network access."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"I found the initial setup process to be very simple and straightforward."
"This is a very stable product."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"We feel the product's technical support could be better, as this relates to the solution itself, to the installation of the product, and to having a proper understanding of the case."
"If I want to allow access to Facebook, yet not allow the user to access videos, then I am not able to do it with this product."
"The endpoint protection capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"In larger companies with extensive infrastructure, retrieving logs for a longer period of time can sometimes take a bit longer than desired."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"Configuration is not easy because it has an old-fashioned interface. The configuration interface is highly complex, and it's been the same for years. They have to change the interface."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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